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Redskins Reality Checks: Cancer, Haskins, and an afterthought on Sunday in Buffalo

By Tim Payne

LANDOVER, MD - DECEMBER 30: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder before the game between the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles at FedExField on December 30, 2018 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images)
LANDOVER, MD - DECEMBER 30: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder before the game between the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles at FedExField on December 30, 2018 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images) /
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MIAMI, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 13: Dwayne Haskins #7 of the Washington Redskins warms up prior to the game against the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium on October 13, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 13: Dwayne Haskins #7 of the Washington Redskins warms up prior to the game against the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium on October 13, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) /

3. The Reality Is, The Redskins have totally blown their quarterback situation.

Kirk Cousins’ success in Minnesota this season is yet another reminder of how badly the team has blown their quarterback evaluations under Bruce Allen. Trading for Donovan McNabb, drafting RGIII, playing John Beck and Rex Grossman, trading for Alex Smith, drafting Dwayne Haskins, and starting Case Keenum and Colt McCoy.

If it wasn’t so painful, this list of debacles would be comical. The organization is totally incapable of making long-term, sustainable decisions at the single most important position in sports.

They can’t be blamed for Alex Smith’s catastrophic injury, but they never should have traded so much or paid so much for his services. He’s not a franchise quarterback. And once they had lost him, they should have acknowledged it was time to completely rebuild.

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But instead, they tried the middle road of over-drafting a quarterback and trading for a stop-gap, rather than drafting to their board and signing cheap free agents to drive the bus on a season of intentional tanking.

They can’t be expected to improve in this area. It’s not going to happen. The only hope at this juncture is for Dwayne Haskins to blossom despite their over-drafting and mishandling of him.

My Prediction: Haskins is just good enough to give the organization hope for next season…and they move forward with him hoping the new coaching staff next season can accelerate his development.

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